DHARMA AND DHAANAM
Ask any yogi saint in any corner
in india, what leads to the grace of enlightment and the journey beyond it and
in uniformity they will say, ‘anna dhanam’, ie, feeding the stomach fires of
humans.
Imagine yourself as a bird that
has to find food each day and by divine grace, you do find the food for the
stomach.
The receiving of food is the
sacred act, as though it is the Absolute providing for our need. Siddhar Raja
Swamy says, “feeding the stomach fires of many creates the transforming grace
that makes humans the angel. The dharma act provoked by sensitivity to other’s
hunger ignities as a catalyst, the energy of source to work in the human
reality plane that we are in. Higher yogic fruits is attainable only through
divine grace that we receive.”
Most sages live like a bird, not
worrying about the next meal and the meal they receive, they know it is from
Source. By our act of providing the meal, we become the divine instrument that
allows the cosmic energies to go back and forth through our human reality plan
as in the receiving and the giving. This allows the ‘flow’ to happen. This flow
as the random thought of giving and as kindness allows our karmic human
ignorance to dissolve. Pure Yoga is knowing the grace that flows from action.
Your contribution to Maha
Siddhargal Trust will be of immense value!
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THE BENEFITS GAINED BY VARIED CHARITABLE-DEEDS
1. When a milk-yielding cow is
brought along with its calf,its horn-tips are adorned by gold-crowns,its hooves
are draped in silver-shoes,its bare-back draped in pure white silk-cloth and
presented (donated) to a Brahmin (the pious person who possesses Brahma-Jnana)
along with the milk-container,it is considered as the foremost form of
alms-giving. Further,the alms-giver is absolved of all his sins and he attains
liberation,is born no more in this world of misery and goes to heaven.
2. When a milk-yielding cow is
donated along with its calf,the alms-giver would live in heaven in as many
years as the number of hairs that covers the cow’s body.
3. The person who donates a
‘Kapilai’ cow would liberate seven-generations of his fore-fathers and live
along with his close-ones in heaven.
4. The soul of a person who had
donated a cow along with its calf when on the verge of death,would without fear
traverse the boiling river-waters of vaitharani that flows on the borders of
‘Yamapattinam’ – the world of the dead.
5. If a person possesses ten
cows,he should donate one cow to the qualified needy-person,if he has thousand
cows,he hould donate a hundred cows. But the benefits gained for both are the
same.
6. The person who donates a
thousand cows would live in the heavenly-worlds where apsaras and
beautiful-kinnarvas live,possessing a radiant golden-form.
7. The person who donates cows
would in this present life itself enjoy a peaceful,contented,luxurious and
long-life and after his death would attain a heavenly-life.
8. The one who donates
milk-yielding buffaloes and bulls would live a contented life and attain a
heavenly-life after his death.
9. ‘Samhutha halapanjamam’ means
giving away in charity a bull along with its plough to Brahmins. The
plough-share should be covered in gold. Such a person would after death live a
heavenly-life and would be adored and praised by everyone in heaven.
10. ‘Joshtapushkaram’ are exalted,revered,holy-temples
and when cows are donated in these holy-places,the alms-giver attains varied
noble-benefits.
11. When a person donates bulls to a holy-Temple,he
gains noble divine-benefits. Such bulls should bear the mark of the
Conch,Chakra or the Trishul.
12. When such bulls are donated by his off-spring to
holy-Temples on the eleventh day after a person’s death,his soul would within
six months or a year be released from hell and would reach heaven.
13. A person who gives away as charity a vessel full of
gingely-oil and a vessel full of honey would in his present life itself attain
a peaceful,contented and exalted-life.
14. A person who donates a vessel filled with sesame and
a bed along with bedding would lead a long,peaceful and contented-life.
15. A person who donates a house,a cow-shed,a public
utility-home,a well and such things that benefit the public as large would be
absolved of all his sins,would be born no more and attain a heavenly-life.
16. When a chakra made of silver is heated and then
cooled in water,then covered in gold and presented to a Brahmin it is known as
‘Kalichakra dhanam’ and is highly beneficial to the alms-giver.
17. A person who donates to a Brahmin iron equal to his
own weight would not go to hell. A peron who donates fifty balam (ancient measurement)
of iron covered in silk would never suffer in hell.
18. Fruits and eatable-roots and bulbs that grow
wildly in forests that are also liked by the Lord of death when given away to
the poor and hungry would provide the alms-giver a healthy and long-life.
19. The person who donates a village,a hamlet or a field
with crops ripe for harvest would gain everything that is to be gained in life.
No pleasures would be denied of him.
20. The person who donates five or six balams of
copper-vessels,or half of that,or even a quarter of it would not be bound by
worldly-desires.
21. The person who provides drinking water to quench the
thirst of weary strangers on the road and provide small eatables to them would
gain a well-deserved contented-life and after death would live happily in
heaven.
22. The person who reads Puranic-stories in holy-Temples
to benefit the public gains the benefits that are acquired while performing all
known charities.
23. The person who prints and gives away free of cost the
Dharma-Shastras and the Vedas with their six divisions would gain all good
noble-merits.
24. The one who cleans the holy-Temple’s fore-court
pillars and ground with water and cow-dung every day would be absolved of all
his sins.
In this Holy-Temple on the full-moon and half-moon days Yaagas of
immense-magnitude are perfomed at six in the evening honoring the 210 Siddhars
who rule this world and for the benefit for entire humanity and all forms of
life in this world. These Yaagas are very powerful and beneficial for 108 rare
wild-herbs of the ancient-forests are used to purify the sacrificial-fire in
the homam-pit and so purifies body,mind and soul. The further benefits of these
Yaagas are attainment of ‘Lakshmi Gadakshyam’ (blessings,Grace and Form of the
Lakashmi the Godess of wealth; a peaceful,harmonious family-life; attainment of
the blessings and Grace of Sarawathi the Godess of learning and live a long and
contented-life. Those who participate in these Yaagas,please be kind enough to
contact the holy-Temple authorities. Please note that performing ‘anna dhanam’
(providing free-food to the poor,hungry and devotees is the most
meritorious-act! - Aum Jai Guruvae!
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